Originally Posted by
danjones1989
I had to confirm with other family members on if they'd be happy to drive from MIA before I could say yes. It does seem after speaking to several agents and AA twitter the drop leg was really a no go. I have had to book the flights via CLT instead, although this does mean we get into MCO around 3 hours earlier than what we would have with our orginal connection. A little win I guess. Thanks for your help!
For future reference, I wouldn't frame it as "dropping a leg" but rather as "changing to another destination within 300 miles of the original destination due to the extended delay". The latter is a well known and long standing policy. The former might lead agents to think the ticket would need to be re-priced. That being said, the challenge here might be that the delay was less than 4 hours, which I
think is the minimum for this policy to be applicable.
However, it seems like this worked out better in the end anyway.